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Awarded

Friday, 23 July 2004

Markdown, my text-filtering plug-in for Movable Type, won third
place in Six Apart’s Plug In To Movable Type 3.0 Developer’s
Contest; my prizes include a new 40 GB iPod, a $100 ITMS gift
certificate, and a copy of Adobe Creative Suite Premium. (Jay Allen
won the grand prize for his essential comment-spam-blocking
plug-in, MT-Blacklist.)

The awards were announced last night at the opening session of the
BlogOn conference. I was unable to attend, but I did write a
short acceptance speech to be read in my absence in case I won:

The year: 1980. The place: the winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid,
New York.

A young, rag-tag team of American hockey players — more boys than
men, really — faced off against the quote-unquote “unbeatable”
Soviet Red Army. As they skated off the final seconds of their
improbable upset victory, announcer Al Michaels asked the immortal
question: Do you believe in miracles?

With this award for Markdown, my Movable Type plug-in, my answer to
that question is “Yes”. Thank you.